Regex question

[lza]

Hello

I have a regex question.
I'm trying to find out how to match everything but one word.
The string to match will contain only one word.
For example, if the string contains "TEST1", the regex expression
should accept the match for any word, but not
when this is TEST1.

Regards
Leandro

 

[duncdude]

this is not a regex question

$text = 'TEST1';

if ($text eq "TEST1") {
print "exclude\n";
} else {
print "include\n";
}

the above example will EXCLUDE as the value of the variable is equal to 'TEST1' - any other value would include as it will fail to meet the match criteria


Kind Regards
Duncan

 

[lza]

Hello Duncan

I know that I do not need regex in Perl to do this, but I need the regex expression for another reason.
Any suggestion?

Regards
Leandro

 

[greadey]

Well it don't get any better:

$text =~ s/(.*(TEST1).*)/$1/;

You might want to make the .* non-greedy and you will probably run into trouble (especially under use strict) if the string contains TEST1 only.